phrases you can use for your IELTS Writing Task 2 essay for the conclusion now this video
is divided into three parts first we look at the list of phrases second I'll give you
some advice and tips and knowledge on how to use these phrases and then finally we're
going to use a phrase in a real IELTS Task 2 question so you know exactly what to do
when it comes to the exam so let's jump straight into it so here we have our lovely phrases
you can see that we've got about -- we've got the starting phrase which says this essay
set out to… and then what we do is we add one of those 8 alternatives underneath so
we can say this essay set out to establish whether… and then we relate it back to the
question or this essay set out to determine whether…
this essay set out to develop a model for… we’re probably not going to use that one
this essay set out to better understand the issues… so we've got a few options there
and then we put on whatever is relevant to our essay in the same regard we could say
this essay set out to… and then you can take over from there this essay has argued
that the effects of globalization are ever increasing and with that comes ever-increasing
dangers… whatever okay last one or final ones overall this essay strengthens the idea
that equality for both genders is an important issue okay and this essay has discussed the
reasons for… in this essay the aim was to assess… the aim of this essay was to examine…
now I say use these with caution okay this is the second part of the video where I'm
just going to tell you how to use them I'll give you advice use them with caution because
you can start to sound verbose verbose is when you use a lot of words to describe something
that could be described with less the opposite of verbose is succinct and succinct is the
gold standard for your writing this is what we want to be aiming for verbose writing is
often encouraged in other writing systems in other writing cultures I know for example
in Spanish that using as many of these set phrases is often encouraged especially in
academic or in legal or in bureaucratic texts however with academic English the opposite
is true we want to say as much as possible with as few as many words as we can this is
why I say use these with caution because we’re adding words that are not entirely necessary
that is we can say the same using less words often however writing in a succinct style
is sometimes not possible for certain students because they just haven't reached that level
yet in which case using these phrases can be quite useful and it can be -- I don't like
saying this but it can be a little shortcut in improving your work so if you’re around
a 5, 6, 6.5 perhaps these sentences would help you a good analogy is that when you've
got crutches you know if you break your leg or your knee or ankle something like that
and then you're given those crutches that go under here and here and you walk like that
you're going to be walking and you're going to reach your destination however your leg
if you keep on using these crutches your legs never get stronger eventually you've got to
throw the crutches away these are crutches these phrases so that's what I'm saying just
use them with caution now let's have a look and use these in action i.e. in a conclusion
by the way I forgot to mention that these we can use them at the end of our paragraphs
as well not just at the end of our essay that there are ways to incorporate these into our
paragraphs but once again same rules apply just be careful you do run the risk of sounding
verbose especially if you overload your essay with these copy/paste phrases so just bear
that in mind please use these with caution let's carry on so imagine we've got the question
in some countries people think that women should have equality with men in particular
equal rights to work as police officers or serve in the army others think that women
are not suitable for such jobs discuss both views and give your opinion so if we're going
to use this -- one of these phrases for example we're going to use returning to the question
posed at the beginning of this essay it is now possible to state that okay women with
adequate and thorough preparation are suitable for some positions historically held by men
so we have to adapt the sentence and make it unique in the fact that it's unique for
this essay we cannot say something like returning to the question posed at the beginning of
this essay it is now possible to state that we have reached a formal conclusion of the
advantages of this issue okay this is terrible terrible terrible writing because there's
nothing there that's empty so this is why you must adapt these sentences and make them
correspond to the question or to the topic of that paragraph otherwise you're not doing
yourself any favors you’re just wasting time because you could be writing something
that's going to get you points rather than just copy-pasting these sentences that's not
going to pick you up hardly anything okay so if you need more help with these and if
you're struggling with your writing you can have a look at the online course and there's
lots of modules and we don't rely so much as the phrases but we do have a structure
that's much easier to follow so before I make the analogy of the crutches okay if we keep
with this analogy the structure that we developed and that we teach on the online course is
the same as one of those Bionic suits okay suddenly you've got muscles and you've got
power and you can sprint and it's just a lot easier and so all these obstacles that are
stopping you you go straight through them okay so if that's -- if you feel like you’d
benefit from that have a look at the online course and if you are struggling with your
work you can also get feedback on your essays there at ieltspodcast.com so good luck with
your IELTS preparation and thank you for watching take care